About

is an Iranian American writer and editor who writes queer heroes. She is a 2025-2026 Poetry Coalition fellow, a 2025 Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices fellow, and a regular contributor at the Lesbrary. Their work also appears in By Her Sword: A Sapphic Fantasy Romance Anthology, the forthcoming Nearest and Dearest: an anthology of dyke domesticity, and the literary publications Fruitslice and Frazzled Lit. She holds an MA in medical anthropology and is currently finishing her MFA at Emerson College alongside her first novel. They are a gardener who collects silly tattoos—Frog & Toad and the screaming possum are their favs. Home is with her partner and two cats in the US South, which you can pry from her humid, sweaty hands (please don’t). She can also be found @susannesalehi.